Many thanks to Jun for sending me over some special tracks and a bootleg of the
Edinburgh Playhouse gig where Shy supported Twisted Sister. But the Japan Radio station is why we are here on this page....well
bacause it's Shy related and this is Tony's page on my Winterstrain fan site !! Hope you like the wee mix
I have made up for you all :o)

Many thanks to Jun !!

With the new TNT album released it's all go for Tony now...touring !! No
Scotland gig though I hear :o(

Still rumour has it they have been asked to tour with Motley Crue in the states
!! Still waiting on confirmation if this is true or not. The New Territory reached number 11 in the Norwegian charts and after
slipping down is on the rise again, so still selling well after all these weeks. Mixed reviews from most quarters, but what
do those fuckers know. The album is shit hot and Wild Life, Are You Blind, Golden Opportunity and the marvelous Milestone
River are stand out tracks. Ignore it at your peril !!

Tony giving his all in concert.

Linkan Andersson

Linkan was born in Varberg, Sweden on March the 28th 1973. To his list of bands Linkan
has played for Parallel Universe,Livin' Parazite,Unborn and Zoodrive. At the tender age of 10 Linkan attended his first rock
concert and Kiss was that gig in 1983.First record bought was Kiss-Hotter Than Hell.Favorite bands:Placebo,Radiohead,U2,Manic
Street Preachers,Kiss & Interpol. Keeping up all the Kiss influences, Linkans favourite guitarist is Ace Frehley.

Favorite Albums:

Placebo-Without You I'm Nothing,Beatles-Sgt.Pepper,Kiss-Dressed To Kill.

Favorite Rock Song:Thin Lizzy-Romeo And The Lonely Girl,U2-New Years Day.

More fresh news from Tony is the sleeve notes have been written by Dave Ling from Classic Rock
magazine for "Reflections - The Anthology". Tony has released them for us all to check out now !!

During the mid-to-late 1980s,
Britain’s homegrown melodic hard rock scene was blessed with an embarrassment of riches. No one who lived through the
era could forget the hook-friendly quality of (takes a deep breath…) FM, Tobruk, Strangeways, Dare, Terraplane, Lionheart,
Heavy Pettin’, Airrace, Bronz, Partners In Crime, Alaska, Grand Prix, John Parr, Virginia Wolf, Kooga, Robin George,
Cutting Crew, Rio or indeed the subject of this two-CD retrospective, Birmingham’s own Shy. Unlike many of the aforementioned
acts, however, Shy could easily be distinguished from the pack. And they still can.

The band’s origins date back to 1980, when they were known as Trojan. The Trojan sound was surprisingly heavy,
‘Dreamer Deceiver’ by Midlands neighbours Judas Priest sometimes slipped into their live set.

In
a fortuitous coincidence, vocalist Tony Mills was sacked by his former band on the day before the nucleus of guitarist Steve
Harris, classically trained keyboardist Paddy McKenna, bassist Mark Badrick and drummer Alan Kelly received an offer to make
an album for Ebony Records. They’d already tested the water with the track ‘Tonight’, which featured on
the Hull-based label’s compilation disc, Metal Warriors.

Gradually
the music became more commercial and intricate, Mills’ habit of wearing Bowie-esque make-up also winning them extra
attention. In late 1983, the debut album, Once Bitten… Twice Shy was referred to in 1983 as “perhaps the greatest
English pomp rock album of all time” by Kerrang!’s Xavier Russell. However, a precedent was set when the same
magazine interviewed the band. Besides griping about having paid for his own copy of the album, their journalist’s patronising,
sarcastic article (“If cities were people, then culturally Birmingham would be [buffoon-like comedian] Arthur Mullard”)
baited Shy unnecessarily, initiating a sometimes frosty relationship with the gentlemen of the press.

Having being chatted up in the lavatories of what he’d failed to recognise as a gay bar, and in full spandex
regalia during a post-gig celebration, Mills dispensed with the facial embellishments. “I was so n´ave,” he now
laughs. “All those guys wearing big medallions, dancing with one another. I’ve never run down a flight of stairs
to fast in my life. The make-up had to go.”

Meanwhile,
Badrick’s love of kung fu resulted in too many broken fingers and thumbs, so ex-Trouble man Roy Davis succeeded him
by the time Shy moved to RCA Records for their next album, recorded with Tony Platt. Impressed by his credentials with Foreigner
and AC/DC – Platt was Mutt Lange’s favoured choice of engineer – Tony came to Shy having completed Uriah
Heep’s Equator album.

“He brought in John Sinclair and Pete Goalby for the backing vocals,” recalls Mills, “which made it
a very operatic record.” Expands Davis: “We bowed down to Tony Platt, to the point where we didn’t even
attend the final mix. Listening to it now, there are things I’d change, but we left everything in the hands of Tony
[Platt] and RCA. We thought the label knew best.”

That theory didn’t always hold water. A single, ‘Hold On (To Your Love)’, preceded the album’s
release but its ambitions were thwarted when Gallup, the chart compilers, objected to a shrink-wrapped T-shirt that accompanied
early quantities. “That really hurt us,” rues Mills. So did the label’s insistence in recording Cliff Richard’s
‘Devil Woman’.

Shy’s
major label debut, Brave The Storm drew further praise from Kerrang! in 1985. This time Paul Suter enthused over Mills’
“unflaggingly excellent” vocals, comparing him to Queensr che’s Geoff Tate, McKenna’s “admirable”
keyboard work also singled out for attention.

There would be an 18-month wait for the band’s all-important third album, the interim being filled with roadwork
– having already gigged with UFO, Magnum and Twisted Sister, they added Bon Jovi, Meat Loaf, Gary Moore and the Hunter-Ronson
band to the list. “Don’t forget Manowar, although we were chucked off that tour,” chuckles Mills at the
memory. “It was at a gig in front of 6,000 fans in an Italian cycle stadium and we were going down really well, so they
actually unplugged us mid-set. We were later given ‘incompatibility’ as a reason.”

During an intensive period of album preparation, RCA proposed the band should relocate to Los Angeles and soak
up the Californian hard rock radio vibe. Nobody argued. They wrote the song ‘Break Down The Walls’ with Dokken
frontman Don Dokken and fine-tuned a set of quite extraordinary songs, also pulling in the Michael Bolton/Duane Hitchings-penned
song ‘Emergency’ that began the album. This time they enlisted Dokken/Queensr che/FM producer Neil Kernon for
the sessions, which took place in Holland.

Released in the spring of 1987, Excess All Areas was easily the band’s best work till that point and remains
Shy’s most consistent album. The fans propelled it into Britain’s Top 75, the era’s rock press nodding their
approval. Newly launched in the UK, Metal Hammer embraced the cause. “In Steve Harris, Britain has found a guitarist
who just might give [Bon Jovi’s] Richie Sambora a run for his money,” they purred. “The energy level barely
drops and even their ballads display a controlled urgency that wraps its arms around you and won’t let go.”

“This album is the business,” a buoyant Mills informed Kerrang!’s Derek Oliver. “Some
groups come back with the same old stuff, just a lick of paint added. Every time we do an LP, I like the idea of closing one
door and kicking down the next.”

With Bon Jovi and Europe making rock fashionable again, Shy’s timing seemed perfect. Alas, the window of
opportunity passed before the band or any of their British rivals could capitalise. Why? Well, for starters Shy’s effervescent
confidence was sometimes mistaken for arrogance.

“We were the biggest pissheads on the planet, but our humour was misunderstood,” theorizes Davis now. “We’d
had too much too young, and we blew it with the following album,” Mills adds.

Said
opus, Misspent Youth, surfaced via new label MCA. “RCA wanted to prove they could break a rock act – all they
proved was that they couldn’t,” Mills told me circa the album’s release in early 1989.

MCA also chose to despatch Shy to America, where they fell out badly with Roy Thomas Baker during pre-production.
Consequently, the former Queen/Foreigner/The Cars collaborator barely broke sweat on their behalf. The result, sighs Davis,
was “a pile of shite”. Returning home, Shy had to defend a record they didn’t believe in to an already hostile
press. There were British appearances with the Hunter-Ronson Band, and even Stateside excursions with Badlands, Enuff Z’Nuff
and the Sleeze Beez.

Shortly afterwards, unhappy with the new material and at loggerheads with Alan Kelly, Mills quit. Former XS/After
Hours singer John Francis arrived, but although the music was great (check out the demo track ‘What Love Can make You
Do’) personnel grievances continued. Enter John Ward, an old band-mate of Davis who’d sung with Slash and Madam
X (prior to the arrival of Sebastian Bach). Relocating back to Birmingham from California seemed a strange move, but that’s
exactly what ‘Wardi’ did in 1993.

Having
briefly adopted the name of Krazy Krazy, the revised unit wisely reverted to Shy for the following year’s Welcome To
The Madhouse album. Overseen again by Kernon, its raucousness offered a change of style yet mostly hit the spot. With the
grunge revolution on the horizon, Kerrang! felt obliged to apologise for its four out of five review. Indeed, while writer
Steve Beebee hailed …Madhouse as “their best record to date”, a disclaimer of “Shy are supposed to
be shite, remember?” was also offered.

“Wardi is from another planet,” grimaces Davis of the singer’s eventual departure, and Shy’s
eventual dissolution. “We made a good record together, but our kind of music was dead and buried.”

Time
ticked slowly by, the world turned on its axis, and fads came and went. Then in 2000, Mills agreed to try again (on the condition
that Alan Kelly exited), an aptly titled comeback album Unfinished Business causing Classic Rock to remark: “Shy have
no business sounding this good.” The UK’s Fireworks magazine went still further, casting the current Sunset And
Vine album – released via MTM Music in February – as the missing link between Brave The Storm and Excess All Areas.
“This album raises the banner for the UK melodic rock scene once more,” purred scribe Dave Crockett.

Now a settled six-piece entity completed by guitarist Ian Richardson, keyboard player Joe Basketts and drummer
Bob Richards, Shy have never sounded better nor been too much happier. A spot at this year’s Firefest Festival alongside
House Of Lords, Harem Scarem, Danger Danger and more on November 26 should only add to their momentum.

“We’ve given up waiting for the Ferraris to be delivered,” winks Roy Davis, “but we’re
definitely looking to stay in the game.”

Dave
Ling

Classic
Rock magazine

London,
2nd October 2005

Latest news hot off the press from Tony Mills is the fantastic news that Freeway To The Afterlife
is to be released through Z Records with Cruiser as a bonus album !!

Also Shy have confirmed that they will release a double cd called 'Reflections - The Anthology' on
the 21st of November. Also hot off the press is the release of the one and only "OFFICIAL" Shy web site. Created and updated
by the keyboard player extraordinaireJoe Basketts of Shy. If you
want to drop by and see the full discography of Shy and news of the latest gigs,pictures or just to say "HI" to
the guys in the guestbook then click on the link below..............

Excess All Areas "is" a classic album and a must to start off any AOR rock
fan who does not know where to begin when buying Shy cd's !! With over 500,000 sales world wide, the problem is
not where to start....but where to end it !! I guarantee you that once you buy this you will want more more more.

Here is the full Discography for Shy:

Once Bitten Twice....

BraveThe Storm

Excess All Areas

Misspent Youth

Welcome To The Madhouse

Live In Europe

Regeneration

Let The Hammer Fall

Breakaway ep

Unfinished Buisness

Sunset & Vine

Reflections - The Anthology 1983 - 2005

Here is the full Discography for Siam:

The Language Of Menace

Prayer

Here is the full Discography for Tony Mills:

Cruiser

Freeway To The Afterlife

Crank It Up - With Linkan Andersson

This is how Deenfan broke the news to me on Tony singing with WinterStrain:

Well I thought the cd could not get any better...then Deenfan e-mailed me and told me they had secured
the services of none other than Tony Mills. Legendary singer with AOR super group SHY !!! Who just happen to be my favourite
band.....I feel a song coming on...."Heaven, I'm in Heaven.................

Tony is responsible....YES responsible for the Classic Shy cd Excess All Areas and still rocking
hard to this day. Shy released the wonderful Sunset & Vine back in February. At this moment in time a best of cd
is in the pipeline. Tune into Tony's site on the links page for updates, tour dates and news as it happens. Tony has
also just released his second solo cd. Freeway To The Afterlife can be heard and bought direct from his own web
site. Check it out on the links page. Not content with all the solo and Shy work, Tony has also recorded 2 fantastic cd's
with his side project Siam. The Language Of Menace and Prayer ARE magnificent. The third Siam cd is in the pipeline with none
other than WinterStrain's very own Deenfan on drums.